[2] The Treaty was denounced by Herr Hitler on April 28, 1939.
[3] The Government announced the creation of a Ministry of Supply in April 1939.
[4] This policy was at length adopted in substance by Mr. Chamberlain in March, 1939.
[5] About the organisation of 'shadow' factories for war time expansion.
[6] 'Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming, and that we must rearm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment. I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain.' (Mr. Baldwin, House of Commons, November 12, 1936.)
[7] Herr von Ribbentrop expressed his thanks to me for making this point clear, and fully confirmed the view expressed.
[8] Within less than a year His Majesty's Government abandoned the scheme of Partition, to which they had prematurely committed themselves. So far they have not announced any other policy.
[9] Mr. Duff Cooper.
[10] He visited me a few weeks later.
[11] The Anglo-Turkish Alliance was announced in May 1939.
[12] This has since been made. February 1939.
[13] This policy of a Peace block of nations pledged and organised to resist further acts of Nazi aggression was adopted by Mr. Chamberlain a year later in March 1939, after the occupation of Prague by the Nazis, the dispersal of the Czechoslovak armies, and the capture of their munition arsenals.
[14] They have now returned in larger numbers.
[15] Very little serious progress was made until after the seizure of Prague in 1939.
[16] Events took a different course. After visiting Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden (September 15th), Mr. Chamberlain, in accord with Monsieur Daladier, adopted the policy of appeasement embodied in the agreement of Munich (September 28th). The Czechoslovak Government were induced to yield themselves without resistance to the German occupation of the regions claimed by Herr Hitler, and to deliver up the fortress-line upon which their power to defend themselves against further aggression depended.
[17] Actually the Germans mustered 42 Divisions, of which 30 were massed against Czechoslovakia, 4 were in reserve, and only 8 remained to guard the German frontier from Switzerland to Luxemburg. Against these 8 the French superiority was enormous, and the French General Staff declared their confidence in the result, provided that Czechoslovakia could hold out for a fortnight.
[18] Herr Hitler's one-sided denunciation of the Naval Agreement has relieved us from this.
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